The Young Turks - Middle East Mess - March 4, 2026

Episode Date: March 5, 2026

An exclusive report claims Netanyahu asked the White House about secret Iran negotiations. Steve Witkoff is accused of undermining peace negotations with Iran. Lawmakers share concerns that the Trump administration is going to put boots on the ground in Iran. Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth complains about the media covering casualties of the war. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at [http://shopify.com/tyt](http://shopify.com/tyt "smartCard-inline") Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: [http://ziprecruiter.com/tyt](http://ziprecruiter.com/tyt "smartCard-inline") Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: [https://go.tyt.com/getnoble](https://go.tyt.com/getnoble "smartCard-inline") Hosts: Ana Kasparian SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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because it does appear that it is a huge consideration for the Trump administration. So stick around for that story. We're also going to talk about Israel opening up yet another front in this war and escalating conflict with Lebanon. And when I say Lebanon, I'm not just talking about Hezbollah. Israel is now bombing areas of Lebanon where Hezbollah does not have really any presence or any control, which just kind of goes along with the narrative that I've been trying to get people to understand.

This isn't about going after Israel's enemies. This is about Israel's expansionist project. and history, world sites, UNESCO heritage sites are being completely and utterly destroyed in the process of this. So we'll get to some of that later in the show. And as we speak, there's a big debate going on in regard to whether or not Kurds have entered the war against Iran. Conflicting reporting on that. But one thing that we do know for sure is that the CIA and the Trump administration has been considering arming the Kurds. to join this fight to essentially spark civil war in Iran, ensure that the country falls prey to chaos.

So, you know, we can look forward to a destabilized, failed state. Who does that benefit? Well, we know, only one country. So we'll get to that as well. As always, just want to encourage you to like and share the stream. In fact, I don't ask you guys to do much, okay? I hate directing people to do things. it's not my, it's not my favorite thing to do. However, I did watch half of Pierce Morgan uncensored

today, which featured that really creepy looking guy, Josh Hammer, but that's not the reason why I bring it up. I bring it up because Jank Uger was on. And, you know, Pierce Morgan has these weird days where he, either he's playing dumb or he literally like lost a few brain cells, maybe he was drinking the night before. He's having a difficult time understanding what Jank meant by a tweet where he specifically said that, you know, at least the Ayatollah, he died with some level of dignity and bravery. He didn't hide. He knew it was very likely he was going to be assassinated either by the United States or the Israelis. And that is in fact what happened. He didn't hide. In fact, the Iranian leadership, including the Ayatollah, all got hit in a single strike because they

were struck during a meeting. And so Jank made a point about how that was way more courageous than what we see other world leaders, including our leader do, which is, you know, fall to their knees and pleasure is real. And for some reason, Pierce Morgan is super offended by that. I'm more offended by the fact that we don't have a government that represents us. I think that, you know, Pierce Morgan should be a little bit concerned that the UK follows the U.S.'s lead as we go ahead and, you know, engage in wars that we shouldn't be fighting on behalf of a foreign country. So what's my big ask? During the break or when you get time, leave a little comment of support for Jank, okay, because it's just ridiculous that he's being hounded by Pierce Morgan on

something that's pretty easy to understand. Anyway, with that in mind, let's move on to our first story. Let's talk about the Israeli spying on the U.S. president and how commonplace this has become. It's insane. If we didn't hit within two weeks, they would have had a nuclear weapon. And if we didn't do the B2 attack a number of months ago, they would have a nuclear weapon. And when crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happened. I think we have great support. And I think if we didn't do it first, they would have done it to Israel and give us a shot if that was possible. Okay, not only is none of that true.

But President Donald Trump said in the very last part of that video that if we didn't do this, they were going to hit Israel. That sounds like Israel's problem. But the real question here is, why is it that regardless of which president we're talking about, in this case, of course, it's President Donald Trump, they insist on being humiliated in front of the American people on the world stage, on behalf of Israel. Why do they like to get dog walked by a foreign leader? I think we might have our answer. We've talked about bribery. We've talked about blackmail, which I do think that Trump might be.

a victim of, especially when it came to the Epstein files cover up. But there's something else at play here. And I think it has to do with the fact that it's very obvious the Israelis have been spying on the United States and the Trump administration in particular. We stand to gain nothing by getting involved in this war against Iran, which is unfortunately escalated to a regional war. There's complete chaos in the Middle East as we speak. We've lost billions of dollars already. We've lost at least six soldiers, if not more. And Iran is not a threat to the United States. Their ballistic missiles couldn't even reach the U.S. So why did we get involved in this? And it does look like Israel has Trump by the balls. Let's just keep it real. And it's clear they've been spying on him because it's

being reported as such. So let's start off with Shalom Lipner, who worked for the Israeli government and for various pro-war think tanks here in the United States. He writes, Intel obtained information earlier this week that raised suspicious or suspicions that communication had taken place between Iran and the administration to discuss a ceasefire. Oh, wow, how scandalous. Possible ceasefire. How could that happen? Netanyahu called White House officials on Monday and asked if talks or exchange of messages happened. How dare you engage in potential diplomatic talks to end the bloodshed in the Middle East, Trump. Have you been having conversations with the Iranians behind my back?

Now, where did this reporting originate from? Well, someone who worked for Israeli intel until like yesterday, and that was Barack Ravid, who reported this for Axios, saying that Netanyahu sought clarifications from the White House earlier this week after intelligence suggested Trump administration officials might be communicating with Iran. How did the Iran, how did the Israelis get the, how did the Israelis get the United States? this intel about communications between the United States and Iran. Hmm, hmm, I wonder. So you look into the piece or the compilation of bullet points that the former Israeli intel agent wrote for Axios.

And he says that Netanyahu's outreach suggests that the Israeli government is concerned about a scenario in which the U.S. pursues a ceasefire before all of Israel's war objectives have been achieved. Is there anyone seriously suggesting that this war isn't all about Israel and what they want? It's just so abundantly clear. You have Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, just saying it to us plainly. Of course, he probably was pulled aside after he admitted that the U.S. got dragged into this war on behalf of Israel and was told by his masters that he better walk it back. And he tried to and look like a clown while he was doing it. But nonetheless, this is all about Israel. That's it. This does, this does not benefit the United States in any way, shape, or form. On Monday, Barack reviewed rights.

Netanyahu called White House officials and asked if such talks or exchange of messages happened. The White House told Beebe that the Trump administration wasn't talking to the Iranians behind his back. Don't worry, BB. I'm not talking to him. I swear I'm not talking to anybody. You don't want me to talk to about cheating on you? Embarrassing. Embarrassing. This is supposed to be the most powerful country in the world. What a joke.

A U.S. official said special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and Trump's advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, talk almost every day to their daddy, Benjamin Netanyahu to the director of Mossad, David Barnia, another terrorist, and other Israeli officials. And that regardless of ups and downs in the past, the coordination over the president of the coordination over the last month was very close. Don't worry. Don't worry, baby. I'm devoted to you. Not to the American people, not what's in the best interest of my own country, but for a tiny, irrelevant country in the Middle East that is belligerent, that is a pariah state, that has reached off the American people for many, many decades now, and has dragged us into wars that has cost

U.S. taxpayers literally trillions of dollars. That's supposed to be an ally. it actually sounds like we have an enemy of the state grabbing our presidents by the balls and humiliating the American people in the process of doing. So that's the reality of the situation. But anyway, why do we move on to our next story? Because there's a lot to get to the escalation that we're seeing in the Middle East is absolutely devastating. And the real question here is, was there a good faith effort to engage in peace negotiations? Was there a good faith effort to negotiate with the Iranians prior to the devastating strikes that the United States carried out on behalf of Israel, which has now led to complete utter chaos in the Middle East? That's the question. Let's get to the details. They've been enriching well beyond the number that you need for for civil nuclear. It's up to 60%. They're probably a week away from having industrial.

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undermining these peace talks entirely. Now, the real question is why, and we're going to get to that in just a second. But first, here's what we've learned, thanks to an exclusive by MS Now. They apparently spoke to a Persian Gulf diplomat who threw cold water on some of the narratives coming from Steve Whitkoff following these meetings and these talks. Ahead of the war, Whitkoff lied and told Fox News. In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly, with no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%, meaning 60% enriched uranium. Okay, that's what he said in a Fox interview, referring to the uranium's level of enrichment. And they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, very specific, 11 nuclear bombs. And that was the beginning of

their negotiating stance. So he's claiming, look, you know, the Iranians show up. They tell us that they're like minutes away from causing complete chaos in the world. They're about to make 11 nuclear bombs. He even went on to say this during that Fox interview, quote, they were proud of it. They were proud that they had they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs. Now just real quick, this is a bit of a tan. but it's important for you to know. As vicious as you may have found the Ayatollah to have been, Ayatollah Kamenei. The fact of the matter is he was really the only figure in Iran that was holding Iran back

from racing toward building a nuclear weapon. He had to put out a fatwa against nuclear weapons. It's against, you know, the Shiite interpretation of the Muslim religion. so he was very much against building nuclear weapons. Well, they assassinated that guy. And now there's no brakes on that car. So if you're looking at Iran's targeting of civilian infrastructure, and let's be clear, they are targeting civilian infrastructure.

Number one, no one in the West really has a leg to stand on if they're going to clutch their pearls about that. I have been speaking out pretty vociferously against targeting civilian. and civilian infrastructure. So I'm going to go ahead and say that I do have a moral like to stand on. And when Iran does that, it's wrong. But it doesn't matter what I think or what I have to say. Because the fact of the matter is the one person who was serving as the brakes to that car, Kamene, was assassinated. So now you have some hardline figures, you know, seeing this, I believe accurately, as an existential threat to Iran.

And they're going for it. And I think that's pretty clear based on, you know, the bond. bombings we've seen in Tel Aviv, which Israel doesn't want us to know about, but there have been some videos that have been leaked, and it's been absolutely devastating for Tel Aviv. Don't let anyone lie to you and make you think otherwise. It's hard to believe that the Israeli population is happy with what's going on right now. But nonetheless, let me continue. Let's get back to Whitkoff. According to an exclusive report by MS. Now, two sources told them that some of the people involved in the talks did not view Whitkoff as an honest broker. It turns out he is lying.

Now, we suspected he was lying because the claim that Ron is like days away from having 11 nuclear bombs is laughable to say the least, especially when you simultaneously have the president of the United States talking about how we obliterated their nuclear sites last summer. Like, what are we doing here? Nonetheless, Persian Gulf diplomats with direct knowledge of the talks told MS now that with Whitkoff is just utterly lying. He's a liar. I can categorically state that this is inaccurate, said the diplomat, referring to Whitkoff's account.

He was explaining that all of this material can all go away should we have a deal, and Iran can be relieved from sanctions. In other words, Iran actually went far, like, they went further than they had in the JCPOA, which was signed under the Obama. administration. That was the nuclear deal. Now, in that nuclear deal, Iran was able to enrich some uranium. The Trump administration at the behest of the Israeli said, no, you can't enrich any uranium. Now, the real question is, was Iran willing to accept those conditions? Stick around for that. The same Persian Gulf diplomat said that Whitkoff also presented a bogus misrepresentation

of himself as a man of peace, which I'm definitely. believing these days. He says Mr. Whitkoff conducted himself in a manner not befitting the office he represented. Actually, when you look at the office he's representing, I think he does represent it pretty well. It's a administration full of thugs, grifters, individuals who seem to loathe this country and only see the government as an opportunity to enrich themselves. The American people are totally getting shafted under the Trump administration, and our soldiers are getting dragged into a war they should not be involved in, which could escalate to something far worse, and it appears we are going in that direction. Now, a spokesman from the White House denies that Whitkoff was

misrepresenting anything that took place or transpired during those talks. But I actually would like to turn to an interview that took place days prior to the U.S. striking Iran, because who you're about to hear from, is the Omani foreign minister. He's the individual who was mediating the negotiations between the United States and Iran. And here is what he said the Iranians were willing to agree to. Again, going much farther than they were willing to go under the JCPOA.

Take a look. I believe is the agreement that Iran will never ever have a nuclear material. that will create a womb. So you're saying all enriched material would be shipped someplace else, not Russia, but? No, no, the current stockpiles that are still exist. The things that are still in around right now. I think that there is agreement now that this will be down blended to the lowest level

possible. Okay. To a neutral level, a natural level, which means and converted into fuel, and that fuel will be irreversible. That would be significant If Iran agreed to that. It is very significant And I think we have agreement on that We have agreement on that. We have asked to accumulate

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this wasn't ever about weapons, it wasn't about enriched uranium, it was always about what Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israelis have wanted for literally decades. Regime change in Iran. They want a weak Iran, so they don't have to face any challenges as the regional hegemon, of course. And as they expand their borders and engage in their ongoing, you know, colonial project, they don't have to worry about any pushback. Iran is decapitated essentially, weakened, destabilized, turned into a failed state.

That has been the goal all along. That is the reason why Trump entered this war without a real plan about what happens should the IRCG fall. Because chaos is the point. A failed state is very. the point. So I'm glad that the Omani foreign minister gave that interview just days before the U.S. struck because we had some clarity on, you know, the fact that Iran was engaging in good faith, but the U.S. certainly was not. Now contrast what you heard from the Omani foreign minister

with what the White House spokeswoman said in response to MS Now's reporting on this. Her name is Anna Kelly. She says, unfortunately Iran refused to participate in Syria. negotiations with the United States, complete nutter lie, obviously. So the president took courageous action to destroy their ability to have a nuclear weapon, launch or produce ballistic missiles, or armed terrorist proxies. Okay, well, if that's what the war is about, and that's what Trump managed to succeed in doing, then why are we still involved? In fact, why are their conversations about potential U.S. troops on the ground in Iran? Because this was never about weapons. This was never about fearing that the Iranians had the capability to strike the United

States. Now, they did pose a threat to Israel. That wouldn't be the case if Israel didn't want to engage in an expansionist project, but they do want to engage in an expansionist project. Therefore, Iran needed to be dealt with. And they're basically dragging the United States to do their dirty work for them. And by the way, in the meantime, they're escalating war with Lebanon, because that's one of the countries they want to annex land from, of course. So it is clear that Iranians genuinely did want to make a deal. The Persian Gulf diplomat added that the foreign minister of Iran, Aragotchi, said that he was prepared to stay in Oman and continue talking with Whitkoff and Kushner for as long as it took, quote, even if it's one to two weeks,

but Whitkoff and Kushner said they needed to leave the following day to visit the U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. The truth is, again, never about weapons. And I want to go to one other graphic here before we talk a little bit about why Whitkoff would engage in bad faith, you know, especially as someone who really wanted to tout himself as a peacemaker. Well, you know, there is someone that Jared Kushner and Whitkoff, the two individuals who were supposed to be negotiating with Iran, has been, have been communicating with every day. And this was reported by Barack Ravid over at Axios today. So a U.S. official said special envoy,

Steve Whitkoff, and Trump's advisor and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, talk almost every day to Netanyahu, which, you know, we're talking about a person who does not want peace. He wants war. To the director of Mossad, David Barnia, and to other Israeli officials. And that regardless of ups and downs in the past, the coordination over the last month was very close. You mean over the last month when Whitkoff was supposed to be engaging in good faith negotiations with Iran? Good to know, good to know. So there was never a good faith effort to negotiate with Iran.

We need to be clear about that. And there's something else you should know about because prior to the war getting started, we heard that Saudi Arabia did not want to get involved. They didn't want to get dragged into this. So Saudi Arabia said, you know, United States, we are not going to allow you to use your military bases in our country to strike Iran. We just don't want to get dragged into it, okay? Well, the Saudi crown prince is also a terrorist, also a liar, a butcher, if you will.

And so the Washington Post had reported on February 28th that push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran. U.S. intelligence assessments saw no imminent threat. But regional allies argued, now was the time to strike. And strike we did. And I don't think I don't think Trump is going to be happy with the decision he made. If not now, pretty soon he's going to realize what a huge disaster this was, a massive risk that will define his legacy. It turns out that Israel and Saudi Arabia had been engaging in a weeks-long campaign to urge the United States to strike Iran. So Saudi Arabia is very much part of this.

According to four people familiar with the matter who spoke to the Washington Post, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack despite his public support for a diplomatic solution. The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran's forces were likely to pose an imminent threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade, decade. So not within a few weeks, not within a few days, 10 years. We're talking about 10 freaking years. Okay. Last November, Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Murphy actually called out the Whitkoffs,

meaning Steve Whitkoff and his son over their conflicts of interest in the Persian Gulf as he continued engaging in negotiations and peace talks. So Whitkoff partnered with Trump's family back in 24 to launch World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency company. A lot of dark money, a lot of hidden bribery can take place with crypto, can it? A few months later, Whitkoff became Trump's special envoy to the Middle East and for peace missions. And since Trump's reelection, Zach Whitkoff, that's Steve Whitkoff's son, has used cryptocurrency conferences in Dubai and Abu Dhabi as venues to raise billions of dollars from government-linked investors in the UAE and elsewhere, possibly Saudi Arabia, for world-liberally. Liberty Financial, the Trump-Wittkov cryptocurrency company. These people are leeches. They are the worst among us. They have sold the country out just so they can make a buck. They are just the absolute most disgusting and evil human beings imaginable. And I know I'm using

strong language. It's very, very harsh. But they are happy. I want to be clear, happy to sacrifice the lives of American soldiers so they can get dog walked by their, basically by those who pay them to humiliate themselves on the world stage for a little bit of profit. Steve Whitkoff is a joke. Jared Kushner, in my opinion, is the new Epstein. Certainly when it comes to the background wheeling and dealing that takes place, the shadow government that actually rules us all, that's what's happening. We don't live under a democracy. We don't live under a Democratic Republic. None of that. There is a shadow government. They're the ones who pull the strings. You're seeing it happen in real time. And look, the one thing I'll give the Trump

administration some credit for, they're so unsophisticated that they can't help but just be brazen about what they're doing. So we all know what's going on now. In previous administrations, there was speculation. But now it's abundantly clear. The office of the presidency has been bastardized into an office that serves individuals who seek to enrich themselves, even if it means embarrassing themselves and selling out the American people. We'll be back. The moment you've been waiting for is here. GMC's truck month is on. For a limited time, get zero percent financing for 72 months on the 2026 GMC Sierra 500 crew cab pro graphite. the strength of GMC Sierra's 5.3-3-liter V8 engine.

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And luckily, we're accountable to you. And that's all that matters to us. All right, let's get to some of our comments, beginning with our tyot.com members. Tio writes in and says, we did what the Ayatollah wanted us to do. You know, you actually make a compelling case there because this is destroying our country, you know, but our leaders couldn't care less about that. If you're an American citizen and you love this country, and when I say I love this country, I think of the people, I think of our land, I think of the nature, I think of the landscapes.

Like, this country is so amazing. It's so amazing. But we don't have the leadership that we deserve. And we haven't had the leadership we deserve in a really, really long time. Okay, let's go to disruptor. Disruptor pus, who says if we're lucky, maybe Mars will attack. Meteor maybe, I don't know. As a mom's prophet says, Jank, you know you're doing the right thing when you stand up to bullies and they get offended. That's true. And, you know, when you're in the middle of it doesn't feel like the incentives are in the right place. But I'm just hoping that in the long run, the people who get rewarded are those who have a conscience and want to do the right thing and want to tell the truth. Art guy says, watching the news with Anna's Pink Bird Art in the background feels like coming home.

Art guy, thank you so much. And if you love the background, then I did good because you're an artist after all. Ian writes it and says he's parroting BB. Everyone you want to go to war with is a week away from nukes. Totally, totally. It's like Iraq, Iraq 101. I'm having these flashbacks of what we were going through in 2002 and 2003 prior to the preemptive strike in March of 2003. All right, let's go to Targrim Unlimited, who's subscribed as Tier 1 and has been subscribed over at Twitch for 71.

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That's tyt.com slash switch. It'll help save you money on your cell phone bill. And it's just a better deal when it comes to data because who doesn't want to get cash back for data they haven't used. All right. Well, without further ado, I want to talk about something that's been heavy on my heart and on my mind. And that has to do with the possibility of sending American troops to fight on the ground in Iran. Because at the end of the day, this isn't about destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities, which they didn't have to begin with. This is really about a regime change war, and it's not something you can do unless you have boots on the ground. So let's get to it.

I am more fearful than ever after this briefing that we may be putting boots on the ground. B-2s, B-52s, B-1s, predator drones, fighters controlling the skies, picking targets. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. You can save four weeks, but it could be six. it could be three. Ultimately, we set the pace and the tempo. This is as serious as it gets. This is war and peace. They told us in that room that they're going to be more Americans that are going to die. Doesn't it feel good to know that someone who's potentially still an alcoholic is setting the pace and the tempo for a quickly escalating war in the Middle East? And yes, I am talking about Secretary

of War, Pete Hegseth. And the real question that many in America are wondering at this moment is whether or not the Trump administration intends to send ground troops to spur regime change in Iran. That would be devastating, but it seems like it's something that Trump is certainly open to. At the same time, today's Pentagon presser featuring Secretary of War, Pete Heggzith, made clear that the White House really has no idea what they're doing as this war against Iran has escalated into a devastating regional war. So let's get to some of these details because yesterday the Senate took part in a classified briefing on the war. And it apparently shook Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal quite a bit. Here's what he had to say.

I am more fearful than ever after this briefing that we may be putting boots on the ground. And that troops from the United States may be necessary to accomplish objectives that the administration seems to have, but I also am no more clear on what the priorities are going to be of the administration going forward, whether it is destroying the nuclear capacity of Iran or simply the missiles or regime change or stopping terrorist activities. One plus one equals more of the greatest stories. Hulu on Disney Plus. Stories about survivors.

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So Senator Blumenthal left that classified briefing on the war against Iran, even more confused about what the administration's objectives are. So I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, I understand why Blumenthal would be confused because we're dealing with an administration that has absolutely no idea what they're doing and they're being led by a foreign country, Israel. On the other hand, though, I don't think Blumenthal is that stupid. And what I mean by that is it is clear to anyone who's been paying attention that this has been about regime change in Iran from the very beginning. Netanyahu has been urging the United States to fight this dirty war on his behalf, on Israel's behalf for literally decades.

You can find videos of him dating back to the late 80s where he's fearmongering about Iran and their nuclear capability, which didn't even exist, never existed. And why did he do that? Because he wanted to go the United States to engage for regime change. not for the weapons, not because Israel's genuine. Israel is a nuclear power. They have a clandestine nuclear program. They stole our nuclear secrets thanks to Galane Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell. The Demona nuclear site is the clandestine nuclear site belonging to Israel. Israel is not worried about being wiped off the face of the earth. They are nuclear power. Okay, nuclear weapons serve as a deterrent. And so when Iran enriched uranium to 60%, remember, you need enriched uranium at 90% in order to be able to build a nuclear bomb. But they had enriched up to 60%. Why did they do that?

Because they were trying to have a latent deterrent because they knew of the threat that Israel and the United States posed to their own sovereignty. And they were right about that. So anyway, Blumenthal knows. You know, so him pretending like he's confused about the objectives, I don't, I'm not really buying it. But I can understand if Blumenthal is concerned if the Trump administration doesn't have a sound plan in place to, I don't know, protect our troops, protect our military assets in the region, protect our embassies, which the Trump administration didn't do. And our embassies got targeted in various countries, including Bahrain, including in Qatar, Saudi Arabia. We had a CIA center in Saudi Arabia that the Iranians bombed.

So do I think the Trump administration really knows what they're doing? No, I don't. But do I know what their objective here is? Yeah, their objective is get on your knees. Netanyahu is going to take his pants down and you're going to pleasure him. You are at the pleasure of a foreign country's leader. Duh. Okay. Now, later during an interview with News Nation, House Oversight Committee Chair, James

Comer, another Republican, said that boots on the ground in Iran might be unavoidable. If there are boots on the ground, I hope they're not on the ground any longer than the boots on the ground were in Venezuela. But I think that that's something the president knows that members of Congress certainly hope. doesn't happen, but sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this. A nonsense, it's not unavoidable. You could have just, you know, avoided striking Iran and escalating the situation to a regional war. But that would require you to stand up to Netanyahu and the Israelis, which for whatever reason, this administration is unwilling to do, but to be fair, I mean, Biden was unlawful.

unwilling to do that. Biden's not even in the Epstein files as far as we can see. So it looks like he just did it for the love of the game. So Biden's just a bad guy. He wasn't even being bribed or he was definitely being bribed. He took a lot of money from the Israel lobby. But I don't think that was the motivating factor for Biden. With Trump, the way he has behaved when it comes to the release of the Epstein files, very suspicious. It seems like there's something more at play when it when it comes to the Trump administration. But going back to Blumenthal's statements, he is correct and being confused about the Trump administration's plans here, right? Like what, how are they planning on carrying this out? What are they doing to protect Americans? Well, Senator Brian Shatz,

a Democrat, shares the same concern that Blumenthal has, but he's a little harsher in his wording. Let's take a quick look at that. session and you walk out and you have a better understanding about the gravity of the situation and the rationale behind the military action, this is not one of those times. We remain as confused as the American people are. They have had three or four or five justifications for this act of war over the last four or five days and nothing in this classified session alleviated that confusion. Look, the truth is you get different messaging depending on which administration official is speaking at any given moment.

And I want to give you a sense of what I'm talking about here because, okay, let's move away from the administration. Let's actually take a look at the Republican Party. Let's look at congressional lawmakers. They can't even admit that we are in a war right now. And if you don't believe me, here's a little taste of what I'm talking about. You'll concede this is war. We haven't declared war. They declared war on us.

But we haven't declared war. You said this is war. They called it war. They called it war. What I was saying, okay, well, that was it misspoke. What I was saying that they've declared war on us, but war is ugly. I don't believe in the semantics. We've talked about the language this morning.

We're not at war right now. We're four days in to a very specific. clear mission and operation, Operation Epic Fury. I had the displeasure of doing her take this morning with one of the dumbest women I've ever met in my life. Her name is Vianca. And she made the same statement that you just heard, Mike Johnson make that, no, no, no, we're just doing targeted strikes. Are we just doing targeted strikes? Vianca, you moron. I would prefer to listen to what the president has to say about how to classify our military actions in the Middle East right now.

Take a look. Well, thank you very much. These are exciting times. Yeah, I think you probably want to speak about war rather than this, but this is very important. This is very important and we're doing very well on the war front. Oh, we're doing very well on the war front. Oh, interesting. They have no idea what they're doing, no idea what they're doing, completely complete and utter disaster. And I suspect the reason why there's this contradiction and the messaging

of whether or not this is a war is the American people don't like what's going on. They don't want to get dragged into a war in the Middle East on behalf of a foreign country. Only 25% of Americans were somewhat kind of open minded to military action against Iran. And that was before the military action began and six of our soldiers got slaughtered. So who knows what they're thinking right now. But Senator Josh Hawley left that classified briefing and said this. He believed the officials did not communicate a possible end date. Quote, it sounded very open ended to me.

Listen, I know that I've got a great skincare routine and I look way younger than I am. Not to compliment myself too much, but I was around and very aware of what was going on in the preemptive war against Iraq. Iraq. This is completely mirroring everything that we experienced in the lead up to that war. The lies, the deception, the embarrassment to the American people. And more importantly, the deception about how easy and quick it would be to invade Iraq and destroy their weapons of mass destruction. That war wasn't quick. It wasn't easy. And it was absolutely devastating. to our budget here in the U.S. It was devastating, more importantly, to our soldiers.

The soldiers who lost their lives, the soldiers who had multiple deployments and will have lifelong mental health issues as a result of the trauma they had to deal with in Iraq. These people in the administration, in our government, are scum. They don't represent us. They don't care about us. us. And we as Americans, regardless of where you land on the political spectrum, I don't even care at this point. It's not even about partisanship at this point. This is about whether or not you want to protect this country or if you want to be a puppet for a foreign country and get our people killed in the process. That's where I'm at with this. So this is where we're at. And I'm

terrified that they send ground troops to Iran without any real plan in place, knowing full well, by the way, that we are running out of interceptors. So imagine putting human bodies, American bodies on the line, knowing that we're running out of interceptors. So look, CNN reports that the Trump administration officials told lawmakers during a closed door briefing, the following. Iran's Shahid attack drones represent a major challenge and U.S. air defenses will not be able to intercept them all. And that's according to a source in the briefing. This is something that I've been reading about in various like military outlets as well. Because if you want to get a better sense of like the truth and what the military is actually concerned about, they're concerned

about this. They're not able to intercept some of these drones. And on top of that, we are running low on interceptors period. Okay? So in regard to the drones, the drones, defense secretary Pete Hegseth and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kane, acknowledged, are posing a bigger problem than anticipated. They are known to fly low and slow, a feature that makes them more able to evade air defenses than ballistic missiles. So introducing more American troops in that region and potentially on the ground in Iran would be devastating, would put their lives at risk, would certainly lead to far more U.S. casualties. And for what? If you're a Republican and you were hoodwinked by this administration during the Trump campaign when he said that he was going to be

the peace president, that he wasn't going to drag us into forever wars, look, he lied to you. And I'm not I'm not going to mock you for that. I'm not going to, you know, trash you for that. You had faith in the guy and he betrayed you. But enough is enough. If you love this country and you're genuinely America first, you can't keep defending this garbage. All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, I want to talk a little more about, should we talk about? Well, we should talk about how Pete Hagsith really wants us to stop discussing how U.S. soldiers are losing their lives for Israel. And we're not going to do that. We're going to continue talking about it, including in the next story we cover. We'll be right back. Hannah Hartman's comment first, because I couldn't agree more with what you're saying here. And it's part of the reason why I've been so loyal to TYT and Jank in particular.

And, you know, Jank and I are different stylistically, I think, even though people will see us on Pierce Morgan and think we're the same. But at the end of the day, the man is ethical, moral, and is guided by his principles. And that's so hard to find in media. So here's what Hannah says. I've been watching TYT for 10 years. And if anything has been made clear, it's that Jank has a strong moral code. And people want to smear him, make wild accusations about things he said that intentionally twist to make him sound bad. I know he's not perfect and has said things in the past that he regrets.

But I always know his intentions are good. and I rarely believe crazy things I hear about him because I've seen his authenticity for 10 years. Hannah, thank you so much. I really appreciate that you give him the benefit of the doubt because you actually watch the show. I came across a video yesterday where someone I've never met in my life was like, oh yeah, Anna's getting people fired from the young Turks so she can buy a Cadillac. And it's like, I've been driving a 2017 Honda Civic for a while now, for a little bit of 10 years. Like what are we talking about? But people lie, I don't know, I don't know why they do it.

They just do it. And it is what it is. Like the bigger you get, the more name recognition you have in this space. People want to tear you down, unfortunately. And you just have to deal with it. It comes with the job. Taggram Unlimited. Oh, I read your comment already. Sorry about that tag room. Let's go to Sidlife 365. Welcome back, Anna. We missed you last night. Thank you. It's good to be back. The raging atheist says, no one captures my rage quite like Anna. I love having her in our corner. Thank you. Not everyone loves the rage, but I, you know, I try to keep it under control. I don't do well with that, though. All right. So let's go to our superchats. Night of Mirage Odyssey says Al Jazeera reports that the strike on the Iranian girls school, which killed 165 children,

was likely intentional. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not surprised. The investigation notes the school was an isolated building, meaning there were no nearby military targets to justify a mistake. Well, one of the things that I saw was the military's path of bombings. Like, they planned ahead. And it was very clear that the school was within that path. So I don't think it was an accident at all. Using high precision sparrow missiles capable of hitting even dining table within three meters from 1,000 kilometers away, the report concludes the school was deliberate. The strike on the school was deliberate. These people are monsters, man. Michael Cotevalli writes in and says, Ryan Grimm made a great point today. If Iran falls into civil war,

what will happen to the uranium and which faction will control it? Great, great point by Ryan Grim, one of the best journalists out there. Welcome back to TYT. I'm your host, Anna Kasparian. And there's one thing that our Secretary of War desperately wants us to stop talking about. Here's what it is. This is what the fake news misses. We've taken control of Iran's airspace and waterways without boots on the ground. We control their fate. But when a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it's front page news.

I get it. The press only wants to make the president look bad, but try for first. wants to report the reality, the terms of this war will be set by us at every step. On the contrary, I would actually love to live in a country where we have a great president and I can help make the president look good. But we unfortunately don't live in that kind of country. We live in a country that is ruled by a leader that has his balls firmly grasped by a foreign leader. And so as a result, the U.S. has been dragged into a war against Iran that has quickly escalated into a regional war. Things have already gotten out of control. The U.S. is low on

missile interceptors, which is pretty disastrous considering the fact that the interceptors are far more expensive and difficult to make compared to the cheaper drones and missiles that Iran seems to have an abundance. So that's what we're dealing with right now. But of course, Pete Hagsith would like us to stop talking about this. He would like us to stop drawing attention to the fact that we've already lost at a minimum six members of our military, men and women in our armed services. And this is an Israel. Israel liked to hide the damage that they have sustained as a result of the war that they've been egging on. Tel Aviv has been battered. I don't know how high the death toll is in Israel because they prevent journalists on the ground from reporting these

specific details of how much damage the Iranians have managed to do in Tel Aviv. But we're in the United States of America. And our soldiers deserve to have their names read, to have their memories brought up, considering the fact that they sacrificed in their minds for our country, in the end, they ended up losing their lives on behalf of a foreign country. So to be fair, there are two things Hagsith could be referring to in the statement that we showed you earlier. So he could be talking about the deaths of Americans. He could also be referring to that strike on a elementary school that killed 160 children, elementary age children. Both look bad for Trump, there's no question about that. And CNN's Caitlin Collins decided to press the White House

Press Secretary, Caroline Levitt, about this. And things got heated to say the least. Take a look. Given what Secretary Higgs said this morning, is it the position of this administration that the press should not prominently cover the deaths of U.S. service members? No, it's the position of this administration that the press in this room and the press across the country should accurately report on the success of Operation Epic Fury and the damage it is doing to the rogue Iranian regime that has threatened the lives of every single American in this room. If the Iranian regime had their choice, they would kill every single person in this room. And so we can all be very grateful that we have an administration and that we have men and women in our armed forces

who are willing to sacrifice their own lives for the rest of us in this room and for every American across the country and for every troop that is based in the Middle East. That's what these... The secretary, Hexsup, was complaining that it was front page news about these six service numbers who were killed. That's not what the secretary said, Caitlin, and that's not what the secretary meant. And you know it. You know you are being disingenuous.

You and your network know that you take every single thing this administration says and tries to use it to make the president look bad. That is an objectable fact. I don't think covering troop deaths is trying to make the president look bad. If you're trying to argue right now that CNN's overwhelming coverage is not negative of President Donald Trump. I think the American people would tend to agree. Oh, the coverage is negative.

The coverage is definitely negative. He's a bumbling idiot and dragged our military into a potentially devastating war that could require ground troops pretty soon. And he did it on behalf of a foreign country. Yeah, he's getting a lot of bad press right now for a good reason. You want to know one of the other good reasons he's getting bad press because he reneged on his promises, namely this promise. I'm not going to start war. I'm going to stop wars. No more wars, no more disruptions. We will have

prosperity and we will have peace. Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace. Just a side point, Ukraine's in a lot of trouble because we're not even able to provide interceptors for Persian Gulf allies of ours because we're low on interceptors. and we're using everything we have to protect Israel. So I don't know what's going to happen with Ukraine. And the opportunities to agree to a peace deal where Ukraine, yes, would have had to give up some of their land, but at least they wouldn't have more of their land taken by Russia.

They should have taken those deals, to be honest with you. Because now Ukraine is an afterthought for the Trump administration entirely. Anyway, moving on, according to new polling, from CNN and SSRS, many Americans do believe that Trump is an idiot. Okay, that's not what the poll asked to be fair. Americans don't believe that Trump tried hard enough to avoid war. And I think that that's an accurate frame of mind. So six and ten Americans disapprove of the direction or the decision to take military action

against Iran. So this is just the latest poll. There have been similar polls that we've shared with you. Most say that they lack trust in Trump to make the right decisions about U.S. use of force in Iran, with 60% saying they do not think he has a clear plan for handling the situation and 62% saying he should get congressional approval for any further military action. The poll is just absolutely horrible for the Trump administration and for the Republicans, as we get closer to the midterm elections.

So for instance, just over a quarter, 27% feel that the U.S. made enough of an effort at diplomacy with Iran before using military force, with 39% saying the U.S. did not try hard enough at diplomacy first, and 33% say that they're unsure. By the way, these polls, as it pertains to foreign policy issues, tend to have a high percentage of Americans responding don't know or unsure. And that really is an indictment of our media, because foreign policy is something that, generally speaking, the media stays away from. And as a result, when these conflicts happen, unless you're a bit of a news junkie or really care about foreign policy, you're not necessarily going to know exactly what's going on.

And I think that's by design. Now, I do want to talk about the U.S. service members. who have been killed because four out of six have been identified so far. By the way, this is just my speculation. I hope I am wrong about this, but I do have a gut feeling that considering all of the damage the U.S. has sustained at our embassies at like that CIA Center in Saudi Arabia, I think that the casualties on the American side likely are higher than we know. But we're going to have to wait for confirmation on that. For now, though, I want to show you the four service members who have been identified,

who did lose their lives through strikes while they were in Kuwait. So clockwise from the top left, you have the clan J. Cody, age 20, 20-year-old. 20-year-old kid, guys. not even old enough to drink an alcoholic beverage, lost his life in Kuwait as he was in a triple-wide trailer that Pete Higgsith lied and said was fortified. Nicole Amor Amor, 39 years old. Noah Teetjins, 42 years old, and Cody Cork, 35 years old. What's even more devastating about the fact that these individuals,

lost their lives was that a few of them were actually about done with their military service. So Hegsith claimed that they were, again, in a fortified building that wasn't true. The only thing that the building had to protect it was like a concrete wall that was erected specifically to prevent damage from possible suicide bombers as if we're like in 2003 right now. but okay. So Tichens and Amor were potentially going to basically retire from their military careers. This was supposed to be their last deployment. So Amor's 18-year-old son was getting ready to graduate and she didn't want to miss any more of her nine-year-old daughter's childhood.

And Tichin was three months away from finishing his deployment in Kuwait. his brother told the New York Times, he just wanted to get there and get it over with and get back. So with that in mind, I want to turn to Mark Levin, who has egged on this disastrous war and callously discusses the loss of American lives in this next video. Unfortunately, every casualty is very sad, and it affects a family. And we don't like the fact that we lose any red. blooded Americans. But the battle against the Iranian regime, the purpose is to protect the American people, protect our armed forces, protect the homeland, help our allies, protect tens of thousands

of people from being slaughtered who've been slaughtered, and yes, retribution to make it clear that you don't get to do this to us for half a century without any effective response. Of course, if we lose heroes and we lost three, and there may be born, the president says likely so because it's a massive military operation. It's a terrible thing. They gave their lives. They gave their lives for a great cause. The cause is to try and ensure that it doesn't happen again, but on a massive broader scale.

We're talking about nuclear weapons. I know that probably didn't sound callous, but to me it's callous because he's lying, repeating the same BS. The only group of people who have killed tens of thousands of individuals in the Middle East are the Israelis. Iran did not kill tens of thousands of Americans. The only country in the Middle East lately that has killed Americans are the Israeli settlers in the West Bank. 10 Americans have been killed in the West Bank since October of 2023. And then you have the six American soldiers who got killed in Kuwait as this stupid war against Iran kicked off.

And at least Mark Levin understands that here in America, you can't be as brazen about how little you care about the lives of our soldiers as you can be in Israeli media. Israeli media, they're much more honest. And I want to turn to Niv Raskin over at, I believe it was Channel 12 News in Israel. Here's what he had to say about American troops as they came under friendly fire in Kuwait. Now, this had to do with American troops whose jets were shot down. Luckily, they were all ejected from the planes and they're okay. They didn't die. But nonetheless, the wording here that you're about to hear from Raskin is important.

Take a listen. They were American forces and not God forbid Israeli forces that came under friendly fire. We need to get them all out of office. I mean, I can't think of more than maybe two incumbent lawmakers that I would keep, but we need a reset when it comes to our government. We need to get all of these goals out immediately. Luckily, there have been some elections recently that show you just how unpopular it is to be a candidate who supports Israel. So we'll talk about that a little later.

For now, let's take a break. That does it for the first hour. We come back for hour two. Lots to get to, including repeating the same mistakes when it comes to arming certain groups. We'll be right back. What contributions to the progressive cause are you most proud of? I mean, I don't have super high aspirations for a singular role that I can play in the movement or anything. I just, I try to present myself as what I think that I am, which is a progressive man who is driven by a, I think, well interrogated and well organized system of values that I try to stay consistent on. and I demonstrate that that's the sort of life that a person can leave and be successful and be

happy and all of that. And that should not need to be done, but there are so many people on the right that are trying to push men in the opposite direction that I want to be able to do that. Along the way, if I can get people to care about some topics that not that they wouldn't necessarily care about, or that for some men, they might think that's not a topic that they should be focused on, that's definitely something that I relish doing. And along the way, I mean, we've been able to introduce people to a lot of of candidates, that's been a big part of what we've done. You know, not all of them necessarily got in office.

Probably most of them did not. And a lot of them, you might not even remember their names. But it was great to be able to provide people the platform where they had the chance of, you know, making a difference. Obviously, AOC and all that. But there's been a lot of great people along the way. In the bonus episode for the members, we do some inside baseball. We're going to look at John's desk.

Nice little spaceship here. Nerd. But it is kind of look cool. Who has Legos? Oh, no. He's taking apart a keyboard. Who has a mouse pad that's this big? He's got a dog with a nose that you can hang something like.

You know what this desk screams to me? Nerd. And that's how we like him. We love Johnny Pye. He's got his own personality like everybody does at TYT. Come meet us all in the bonus episodes. TYT.com slash team. David Soror.

Neanderer. Is Adam Green Drop by? Charlamian. Congress, been great to have you. It's great to be with you, Chang. Your show is a great thing. You're informing people. A lot of the shows that I live on, you know, my CNN and my MSNBC and even Fox and any of the other shows, NPR, they are so quick to decide that they know what this building means today.

The one thing that I hate that politicians do, you know, they talk about the people they should be talking to. Do they have any idea that they're their establishment and that they're hated or do they not realize that at all? People are so deeply in their little universe. I think it's very easy to not really question what you're doing. Voters have a right to ask questions of any nominee, whether they're independent, Republican, or Democrat. The system is monopoly that suppresses competition. How is it the year 2024? And we're still like maybe they'll talk about pay medical? It's insane.

How is that like at one level it's like what we're talking about it now? You're like, it's 2024. And that's always been the critique, that your critique of us is, well, you guys give good speeches. You put out good tweets, but you're not wielding actual power. Now we're starting to. My favorite news platform by far. It's not even close. It's about a country and a principle, and that's what you and I both work to achieve. And I'm so glad for at least half the battle has now been one.

If you want to go really hear what's going on, honestly, you should tune into the Young Turks. Thanks for doing such a great job. Please keep it up, hang tough. That makes me so happy. Oh, I like making you happen. This is a happy Anna Kisperian. You're welcome, YouTube. Join the Dragon Squad by becoming a YouTube channel member. Click the join button below or sign up on tyt.com slash join to get access to fun emojis, a member only chat, exclusive shop TYT designs, add free watching and so many other amazing perks. Plus you get bragging rights for being part of the coolest community on the internet and help us drive real positive change in the world. The Dragon Squad awaits, so join today. Welcome back to the show, everyone. I have so many super chats to read. So I'm going to go ahead and catch up on some of them right now. And then we'll move on to our next story. Moheat writes in and says, do you

make decisions on what person you'll debate or have a conversation with on her take. I like good faith discussion and debate with Lindy Lee, Amy Dangerfield, et cetera, but not with Dinesh D'Souza or Bianca or Ann Coulter. So Dinesh D'Souza and Vianca is her name. They were on the show today. And I just, I quit like midstream. I just couldn't take it anymore. I can have a debate with people who are engaging in good faith. But people who are being dishonest on purpose, who are lying, you can't have a debate with them, right? So if I know that a person has these genuine beliefs or they can back up what they're saying with some evidence, okay, great. We can actually have a real exchange there. I don't, by the way, I have no control over the

booking for that show. And I'm just done. I'm done. And I want to just say that Lindy Lee By the way, that's not the job that I got fired from. Lindy Lee is someone that I'm sure many of you loathe because of the fact that she went from being a Democrat or Democratic fundraiser to then completely switching over to the other side. But I give her credit for her growth because she did grow on the issue of Israel. She is willing to engage in good faith debate. I disagree with her vehemently on immigration issues.

but at least she's someone I can have like a good faith debate with. Some of the people who got booked on that show, not so much. CDN Norse Dogdad says, Anna, what side gig did you get fired from? So we know to boycott it. I actually really love that place. And I love the people who work at that place, including the editor I was working with. I don't want to cause them any harm. They were forced to do it by the funders.

Let's just keep it real. And so the people with the money are the ones with the power. And it is what it is. So I'm not going to, you know, trash them. Maybe one day I will. But right now, I don't think it's the right thing to do. Daph Mill says, studying World War II on a granular level, two things that allowed the U.S. win a short period in both Europe and Asian theaters, robust consumer markets from small arms to electronics and industrial capacity, one of which the U.S. is losing, one of which the U.S. lost. So yeah, you make a good point there. William Gables World says, Jank, you are the man. I mean, he's not here, but I'll read your comment anyway. Jank you are the man. Pierce is a grifter who never stands firm. We saw it also with Gaza. He always goes back and forth. Pierce, 175 girls were killed in Iran,

but we need to wait to pass judgment. What? He does flip-flop a lot. But his show is probably one of the only platforms that allows people with controversial views to come on. Like the fact that I keep getting invited back, despite how harsh my criticism is of Israel, I think speaks highly of peers. But I do agree, he does tend to kind of flip-flop and play both sides. Sidlife says, Anna, thank you for your integrity. in every rejection, there's a hidden protection. God is aware of everything you've sacrificed for what is right. This isn't the end. It's a new foundation. We stand with you. Thank you. I love you guys so much. I'm so grateful to have you guys in our audience and your support means way more to me than

anything else. Okay, let's get to one more story before we take a break because I did want to talk a little bit about, well, something that's being debated right now on social media and that has to do with whether or not we've armed Kurds to spark civil war in Iran. The CIA has been working to arm Iranian Kurdish opposition forces with the goal of fomenting civil unrest in Iran. And they spoke to a number of different officials who characterized it in different ways. Some talked about sort of basically trying to pin down Iranian forces to create buffer zones where ordinary Iranians who are unarmed would have more freedom to go out on the streets and protests. Certainly our source that we spoke to said that

the focus is very much on establishing control of a sort of semi-autonomous Kurdish-run area of Iran. Well, the Israelis are getting closer to their dream of destabilizing and Bolshe. colonizing Iran with the help of our CIA, of course. Now, it sounds like a lot, it sounds a lot like what we did in Syria and Afghanistan. And it didn't work out so well. But maybe that's the point. So this will make the path to accomplishing the Greater Israel project a little easier for the Israelis. But what does it mean for the whole of the Middle East? So U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal that the Trump administration and Trump in particular seems pretty open to the idea of backing Iranian groups willing to arm themselves in an effort to overthrow the regime in Iran,

the IRCG. Now, the Kurds have thousands of soldiers along the Iran-Iraq border, and they control strategic areas that could be significant for the United States. And Israel, as this war escalates and continues to develop. On top of that, Axios, Barack Ravid, who's an insider when it comes to Israel, reports that the Trump administration has even had communications with Kurdish leaders. Trump has had phone calls with a Kurdish leader in particular. So he spoke to leaders actually from two main Kurdish factions in Iraq, Massoud Barzani and Bafel, Talibani. a day after the Saturday bombing campaign in Iran began.

So the calls were apparently a culmination, and get a load of this, this is important, were the culmination of months of behind the scenes lobbying by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin and Yahoo, another source said, Israel has had close security, military, and intelligence ties with Kurds in Syria, Iraq, and Iran for decades. In other words, they get a group of stateless people to do their dirty work for them. And that's what the Kurds do. And they get betrayed every single time. I'm going to give you examples of that in just a moment.

But before I do, just a few more details. Netanyahu was the first to bring this idea of arming the Kurds and sending them into Iran to spark a civil war. He's the first one who brought this up to Trump. And he's been lobbying pretty hard to use the Kurds to sow unrest in Iran. And so U.S. officials claim that Trump has not made up his mind yet. If you were on social media today, you might have seen some posts claiming that armed Kurds had already started their offensive. But those statements, including one of the statements that was made by Barack Ravid, were walked back. Reveed deleted a tweet where he claimed that the Kurds were already in action. However, one person says that

It is the general view and certainly Netanyahu's view that the Kurds are going to come out of the woodwork and they're going to rise up, what official said. So look, in previous conflicts, let's say in Syria where we arm terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Kurds, by the way, or in Afghanistan, we did something very similar to what they're planning to do here with balkanizing Iran. on. You know, we arm the Kurds. A lot of them get killed. They never get anything out of it, really, right? And it's all of this is hidden from the American people, these like little CIA ops, arming these various factions and various groups. It's all done undercover. But with the Trump administration, it's kind of amazing. Like they're just very candid about what they're thinking about doing, how they're planning to intentionally spark a civil war to destabilize a sovereign country on behalf of another foreign country, on behalf of Israel. So it's just, it's really

incredible stuff here. So there's more. Six days before the war began, five Kurdish groups in Iraq, specifically forces to make up what they called the coalition of political forces of Iranian Kurdistan, and the whole point was to wage a war against Iran. So why the Kurds? Well, the Kurds have significant forces along the border between Iraq and Iran and Israeli bombing of sites in Western Iran has fueled speculation that it is seeking to clear the path for a Kurdish advance. That was reported by Harz, by the way, Israeli paper. So I definitely believe that the Israelis and the armed Kurds are working hand and glove, do I believe that Trump is still, oh, he's undecided, he doesn't know what he's going to do? I have no idea. Trump seems

undecided about everything. He seems like he's just stumbling and bumbling through what could be one of the most devastating wars the U.S. has been dragged into. Now, the Kurds would have to be literally the dumbest people alive to trust Donald Trump of all people. Because remember, we armed the Kurds in Syria. We had the Kurds do our dirty work for us and fight ISIS in Syria. And then in October of 2019, Trump decided to abandon the Kurds in Syria, making way for the Turks to come in and massacre them. So what am I talking about? Well, Trump greenlit, a Turkish invasion that did make that massacre possible. And if you don't believe me or if you don't remember, here's how Trump defended his decision to do so. The president saying today the Kurds are, quote, no angel saying their fight has nothing to do with us.

And now we see the letter, President Trump wrote to the president of Turkey saying history will look upon you as the devil if good things don't happen. We've been talking to Turkey for three years. They've been wanting to do this for many years, as you know. They've been fighting each other for centuries. They've been fighting each other for hundreds of. of years. This has been going on. We were put into this battle. Kurds are fighting for the land, just so you understand. They didn't help us in the Second World War. They didn't help us with Normandy as an example. They didn't help us with Normandy. Okay. So will the Kirkks get involved? Honestly, at this point, we don't know. Like I said earlier, there were already some erroneous reports claiming that the Kurds were already armed and fighting in action. They were already in

Iran causing chaos, but those claims were then walked back. The fact that this was thought up by Netanyahu makes me believe that it's going to happen, whether we like it or not, whether Trump likes it or not. Remember, Trump is Netanyahu's bitch. So he will be, he will do what he is told. And if Netanyahu wants the Kurds to go in, the Kurds will go in. Trump's just going to have to deal with it. You know, what are you? Like the leader of a country of 330 million people? How dare you? How about you shut up and do as you're told Trump? And he will. He'll listen to his daddy, like the little bitch that he is. And so nonetheless, there's evidence that the national army of Kurdistan, the military wing of the Kurdish nationalist militant group known as the Kurdistan

Freedom Party or P.A.K was part of the armed riots that led to complete chaos and death in Iran not too long ago during those protests. Remember when that happened? This is also a little bit tricky because the Kurds are not fans of the Shah or the Shah's son, Pahlavi, who the Israelis would like to install as their puppet as the leader of Iran. So that could get a little messy, a little messy. And they do have a hostile relationship with Turkey, the United States and NATO, but they never hesitate to be used as cannon fodder for America and Israel's dirty wars. So the Kurdish leader in Iran, Mustafa Gidri, who apparently is the leader of KDPI, that's one of the Kurdish militia groups, issued a statement on X earlier today.

And here is what he claims. The U.S. and Israeli strikes on the security and military bases of the Islamic Republic of Iran's regime often pose a grave threat to the lives of civilians and ordinary people. I urge all soldiers and personnel who possess choice and a desire for freedom across Iran and especially in Kurdistan to abandon the barracks and security and military bases of the regime's IRGC army and return to their family homes. This would be in their own best interest, both during these strikes and afterward. It would spare them from the fate of the security forces and the regime's crackdowns. So it looks like there might be some disagreement or dissent within these various Kurdish groups, these Kurdish militias. So who knows what is at play and what is to come? But what we do know, without a shadow of the doubt, is that Netanyahu wants to arm the Kurds and have them so chaos in Iran, civil war in Iran, and our CIA is trying to make it happen. Whether or not it happens remains to be

seen, but we'll follow through with the story and update you as it develops. For now, we're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we've got a lot more to get to, including the devastation that Israel has carried out in Lebanon. What's up, everyone? Welcome to our social break. All right, we've got a lot more comments to get to. Bach says, I'm not concerned about boots on the ground. War is war, and we are in it. Let's just get it over with already. same way if you had a family member in the military that could be deployed to fight a senseless war on behalf of a foreign country. But, okay, I mean, if the point that you're trying to make is that our country is fully controlled by the Israelis and whether we like it or not, it's going to happen. Okay, that's a point. And I probably agree with that. But if there's any way that we could prevent it, we should. I just don't know if we can.

Zero writes in and says 0-083 writes in and says, Trump and his magaloons have completely and utterly destroyed our credibility in the world, and now we, the United States, are completely untrustworthy. No, I don't know how the country recovers from this, not just in terms of our geopolitical relationships and all of that, but economically, debt-wise, we're already in bad shape. And this is just going to destroy us. But okay. Yeah.

America 1776 USA says it feels like too many leaders are focused on their own circles instead of people living with the consequences of their decisions. Love all the work TYT does for us. Thank you. They definitely don't care about us. Like we've definitely, and we've been in this age of leadership that looks out for themselves and enriches themselves. They don't give a damn about us. It's amazing how brazen they are about it, too. So overt.

Daville says, endless wars was one of the things that brought down the Greeks, Roman, Ottoman, Ottoman, and British empires, but the U.S. will be different as we ignore history. Yeah, I mean, if you love this country, I don't know how you're not beside yourself right now. Because, yeah, history repeats itself. You know how empires fall. This is going to destroy us. And again, we were already in bad shape going into it. Josh writes in and says, Anna, thank you for always calling out people in the debates you do on Pierce Morgan and her take. I hate when those people lie constantly. You're the definition of America first.

So thank you for being fearless. Thank you. Yeah. And there's a lot of punishment that comes along with that. But I'll take the punishment if I can speak my mind. Gargoyle dragon says he's not the candidate or president of peace. He is a big MacDeth with the side of racism and a large drink of inflation. Speaking of inflation, there's an economic story we'll get to later. I'm worried.

Talk about the war against Iran escalating or spreading into a regional war. What I'm mostly referring to, of course, is the fact that you now have Iran bombing U.S. bases and embassies and oil infrastructure in various Persian Gulf countries. you also have the issue of Israel escalating its war against Lebanon, not just Hezbollah, but Lebanon. And this next story will tell you exactly what I mean when I say Israel's war against Lebanon. Take a look. The latest conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is escalating. There is no front line and there is no mediation or diplomatic effort to end it.

We are in Hazanen. This is a suburb of Bayroute. It's not considered a Hezbollah stronghold. It is not where Hezbollah supporters live. Behind me, the Comfort Hotel, which was targeted by an Israeli strike in the early hours of the morning. So before I continue with this story about what Israel is doing to Lebanon, including areas of Lebanon where Hezbollah does not operate and has no control over, I just want to talk a little bit about the value or what I think of when it comes to Beirut, when it comes to countries like Lebanon, like Iran.

You know, when you talk about the Armenian diaspora, and I'm talking about people who fled Armenia due to the genocide that was carried out in 1915, they fled to places like Syria. That's where my dad's side of the family ended up. And despite everything you hear about Muslims and Arabs through the propaganda here in U.S. media, these were countries that took Armenians in and gave them a home, a place to be safe. My dad's side of the family ended up in Damascus. My mom's side of the family ended up in Haifa, Palestine.

Many Armenians ended up in Beirut. That's why you'll hear about Lebanese Armenians. These are the Armenians who settled in Beirut after the genocide. There are Iranian Armenians, Persian Armenians. These are Armenians who went to Iran for safety after the genocide. And these are places that I never had an opportunity to visit and to know that some of their historical sites are being targeted, that these places are just being completely destroyed by a belligerent pariah state like Israel. It's personal. It really is because these civilians don't deserve what they're dealing with.

but there's no one here to protect them. In fact, in Lebanon, really the only group that seeks to protect Lebanon is Hezbollah, regardless of what you think about them as a terrorist group or whatever you've heard in the media. Without Hezbollah, Israel would have annexed huge portions, huge swaths of land from Lebanon. That's the reality of the situation. So with that in mind, Israel has continued to escalate its attacks against Lebanon. across Lebanon, in fact, IDF strikes hit a hotel, a hotel in Beirut, and a residential complex in the eastern part of the country, killing at least 11 people, and that's according to Lebanese state

media. And now, war-obsessed lawmakers here in the states are also egging Trump to help Israel in its military campaign against the Lebanese. So before we get to Lindsay, Graham, the piece of crap that he is clamoring for even more death and destruction. We do have to update you guys on what's been going on with Lebanon. Because if you can remember, Hezbollah had signed a ceasefire with Israel in 2024. Since then, Israel has violated that ceasefire by carrying out literally thousands of strikes against Lebanon. On Monday, Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group that's backed by Iran, began firing rockets in northern Israel in retaliation for the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei.

And none of those rockets luckily resulted in casualties. As much as I loathe, absolutely hate the government and military of Israel, I don't want to see civilians die, period. I don't care if there's Israeli civilians. I don't care if they're Lebanese civilians. civilians should be protected. But unfortunately, we now live in a world where international law has been totally dismantled. And anything goes. There are no rules. And so a lot of civilians are dying. So none of the rockets, like I said, resulted in casualties on the Israeli side. So 11 people did die in the strikes on Lebanon, but the rockets didn't kill anyone in Israel, luckily. Lebanon's Prime Minister Noaaf Salam condemned Hezbollah's actions as irresponsible and said his government was immediately banning the group's military activities. Okay, good luck with that. Total cucks. So embarrassing. But since then, Israel has carried out waves of airstrikes across Lebanon.

In addition to targeting the southern suburbs of Beirut, where Hezbollah does have broad support, Israel has also hit outside. of Hezbollah controlled areas. Why would they do that? I thought this was a war against Hezbollah. So Lebanon's health ministry said, Israeli strikes on two towns south of Beirut, killed six people and wounded eight. Then Israel struck a residential building

in the eastern city of Balbek, killing four and wounding six others. The city's mayor says that only civilians live there, which makes it a perfect target for the Israeli of course. I mean, what would the Israelis be if they weren't slaughtering civilians? They also hit the comfort hotel in a mostly Christian suburb of Beirut called Hezmere. Okay, hazmia, sorry about that, with no prior warning. A hotel, guys, a hotel.

And that hotel, by the way, is less than a mile away from the presidential palace. So why did Israel strike it? But it's still not clear exactly why it was targeted. Other than the fact that we're just, we're talking about Israelis, they do terrorism. And that's what this was. There are some reports that there was an Iranian diplomat at the hotel, but those reports are unconfirmed. And I'm sure they're coming from Israel.

And I don't trust the Israelis. They lie. That's what they do. It's their specialty. According to the owner of the hotel, the hotel was sheltering about 13 families that had been displaced by Israel's war on Lebanon. And the only casualty from the strike was their young receptionist. The owner, like many in Lebanon, is fed up with both sides of the war.

He says, quote, they're worse than each other. She, I apologize, she muttered, referring to Israel and Hezbollah, two sides of the same coin. I don't think Hezbollah exists without Israeli aggression, to be honest with you. Hezbollah exists specifically because of the fact that Israel keeps attempting to encroach on Lebanon. They keep trying to annex Lebanese land. So in total, since fighting between Hezbollah and Israel resumed on Monday, Lebanon's health ministry says the death toll from Israeli strikes on the country has risen to 72 with at least 437 people wounded.

And the death toll did include at least seven children. Additionally, the UN Refugee Agency said Tuesday that 30,000 displaced people, people were staying in collective shelters in Lebanon, while many others slept in their car, on sides of the roads, as they could not yet find safe shelter. And honestly, if you're a country targeted by Israel, is there any safe shelter? Israel is the type of country that will tell people to evacuate to a certain area for safety, and then they'll proceed to bomb the area they told people to evacuate to. That's what they did early on on their war against Palestinians and Gaza, which later turned into a genocide, of course.

That's what they do. There is no safe harbor when you're targeted by Israel. And when I say targeted by Israel, I'm not just talking about Hezbo. I'm talking about civilians in these countries. They don't care about civilian lives. We're talking about a country that was founded by three separate terrorist groups. If you think they're going to care about international law when they're in their quest to acquire more land and control? Come on. Meanwhile, Israel has sent ground troops into the South. Brigadier General Effie Deferrin, an Israeli military spokesperson, said on Tuesday that Israeli forces moved forward and took over strategic areas in Lebanon, expanding the Israeli military's zone of control close to Israel's northern border.

And Israel really has no plans on stopping their campaign, because this isn't about protecting Israel. about taking over the Middle East. Yesterday, they warned residents of more than 80 villages to evacuate immediately. We are at war with the wrong country. If we were at war with the right country, I would seriously consider enlisting. And while Israel is publicly saying that their campaign

against Lebanon is simply to protect its citizens along the northern border, military officials admit that their true plan is to go even deeper into Lebanon with the hopes of disarming Hezbollah, or let me decode that for you, they want the land. Okay, they want the land, they're going for it. That's why they're going deeper into Lebanon. That's why they are bombing areas of Lebanon where Hezbollah doesn't even exist. According to the New York Times, the Israeli plan is to increase pressure on Hezbollah in stages. Two Israeli officials said, saying that a small buildup of forces in Lebanon could evolve into a bigger and more

ambitious invasion. Those plans were shared with some battalion commanders and other mid-level officers weeks ago before the war with Iran, the official said. So the officers could prepare their troops. Literally the only just war I could think of would be a war against the Israelis. The Israeli military's chief of staff, Lieutenant General Ayal Zemir, confirmed that the campaign in Lebanon would not stop until Hezbollah was decimated. By the way, everything that Israel does essentially, like it just reproduces more extremism. And I think that that's on purpose, to be honest with you. They know it. They totally know it. So the idea that they're doing this to disarm a militant group is laughable to me because they

kill all sorts of innocent people. And when they do that, that radicalizes people. That creates more extremism in the Middle East. And by the way, more hostility toward Americans in the region. and more hostility toward our country. When we as Americans did not want this war, did not want to get dragged into this, but are dragged into it anyway because our government is not accountable to us, doesn't care about us. Whether we're talking about a Democratic administration or Republican administration, the president will open his mouth and take it like a good boy.

So the Israeli military chief of staff said what he said about disarming, Hezbollah, but today senior Israeli official acknowledged that Israel misjudged Hezbollah's willingness to engage in a fight. So this was reported by the cradle, Israeli Channel 13 citing a security source, quote, we miscalculated the level of force with which Hezbollah joined the battle. And we were wrong regarding Hezbollah and did not expect them to launch missiles with this range. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Hopefully, Hezbollah's firepower is even worse than the Israelis are thinking at this moment. And yeah, I mean it.

They should get the F out of Lebanon right now, right now. And honestly, the leaders of all of these Arab countries and Muslim majority countries, do you guys not understand that you're facing an existential threat right now? Do you not see that? You like having your countries destabilized? You like having Mossad come in and spur these ridiculous, nonsensical wars, civil wars within your countries. You like having your land annexed. Like, what is going on here?

I would say it would make more sense to maybe build a coalition of Arab states and Muslim majority countries to fight off Israel's aggression. That would be better for them. But for whatever reason, they're just not going in that direction. It's really interesting. And honestly, what this ongoing escalation in the Middle East has made abundantly clear about America and Americans on the international stage is that we're a bit of a paper tiger. I mean, we're running low on interceptors. We're unable to protect our own embassies in the Middle East. We're unable to protect our own military installations in the Middle East. Not a good look, pretty embarrassing for the Americans, isn't it? So for my fellow Americans, how much more of this public humiliation are we going to take?

I loathe Israel. I do. I do. I think that it is a dangerous, vicious, belligerent, priestate. And it is shameful that we continue to enable them. And now, after being one of the leading voices pushing Trump into war with Iran, Senator Lindsey Graham, is now begging the president to engage with war against Hezbollah. Take a look. So I'm calling on President Trump today. Join Israel to attack Hezbollah. Avenge the Marines. America never forgets. Those 220 Marines and 18 sailors families, we want to go after the infrastructure that killed your loved ones. There are IRGC assets in Beirut as I speak. President Trump come up with a new operation called Semperfy, fly with Israel, and go after Hezbollah,

who has American blood on its hands, not only take the mothership of Iran down, also take the proxy of Hezbollah, settle the score, even the account. I have an idea. Why don't we just like airdrop Lindsey Graham in the middle of Iran right now? Or Lebanon. Why doesn't he fight Hezbollah himself? I'd love to see it. So he's referring to Hezbollah's 1983 attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, which got 241 Americans killed. By the way, there is some indication that the Israelis knew that it was coming and didn't

inform the Americans about it, apart for the course. I think that they had foreknowledge when it came to 9-11 too. But anyway, even Republican Tim Burchett roasted Graham for his bloodthirstiness. Let's take a look at that. Senator Lindsey Graham is now calling for the U.S. to start bombing Lebanon in response to the Hezbo. Yeah. Yeah, Lindsey hadn't seen a fist fight. He hasn't wanted to turn into a bombing, right? So I just take it with a grain of salt, dude.

Because Lindsey Graham is a coward, and he thinks this makes him look like a tough guy. And of course, this is what his donors want him to do, so he does it. But he doesn't have kids. He doesn't have to worry about his son getting drafted into a disastrous war that could get him killed. By the way, this is escalating very quickly. And if China and Russia gets involved, I don't know how bad this is going to get. But I'm starting to think that there is a possibility that we could find ourselves in a situation where there is a draft. So I mean, look, and it's not just what's happening in the Middle East.

Like Trump is pursuing regime change in Cuba. Okay, there was a story that we didn't even have time to cover on the show today. We're getting involved in Ecuador. What are we doing? We don't have endless resources and we don't have endless soldiers to sacrifice for these nonsense wars. This is a total disaster. And like, Trump seems to have lost his mind, too. Like, I'm seeing the cognitive decline. I think most people can see it. Aside from the weird rashes he's got, I don't know what that's all about. I'm not going to

diagnose him. I'm not a health expert. But in terms of the way he's been behaving, he's definitely lost it even more than usual. So we're being led by an elderly man in cognitive decline who is totally controlled by a foreign country. This is a disaster. And if people aren't enraged by it or at least concerned by it, I don't know what world you're living in. I don't know what you're smoking, but honestly, I could use a little because I'm worried. And I feel like everyone else should be too. Anyway, let's take a break. When we come back, we'll end on some positive news. We'll talk about the Senate primary race in Texas.

Hey guys. All right. So our member comments, I'm going to read a lot of them during our members-only bonus episode today. It will be behind a paywall. So members obviously will have access to it. But if you're not a member and you want to watch it, just go to t-y-t.com slash join or hit that join button if you're watching us on YouTube.

But for now, I'm going to read the super chat. just because I don't know if our super chatters are members, and I want to do right by them and read their comments before we run out of time. So we've got zero writing in again. The idea that we're going to put troops on the ground in Iran is absolutely nuts. In my view, this would be the Bay of Pigs on steroids. It would be absolutely insane. But that probably means Trump's going to do it. CDN, North Dogdad says, bombs today are not like World War II. Then the bombs were dropped. And you hoped that, They hit targets and not civilians. But 86 years later, we are still digging up bombs that didn't go off. Jono writes in and says, hey, Anna, I'm surprised that the article talking about putting Americans

in camps wasn't high on the list. Actually, that was a story I wanted to cover earlier this week when it first broke. But as you can imagine, the new cycle has been insane. But yeah, there's a guy. I forget the name of this individual. He lives in America, by the way, and he's calling for people like Jank, Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens, basically individuals who have been very critical of Israel, Jackson Hinkle, to be rounded up and placed in internment camps.

Okay, people like that should be locked away. Okay, because they're un-American. They don't believe in our way of life. And they literally want to punish Americans for their freedom of expression. if that freedom of expression entails criticizing the country that he's actually loyal to, and that's Israel, of course. Is that a trope? Is that a trope?

F out of here. Callie Millie says, it's clear, Anna, you've been vindicated against the critics. While others preferred your congeniality, I salute that you turned it into an art of war strategy, using the camera-ready charm as a bridge to deliver inconvenient truth the world needed to hear. I really appreciate that. Thank you. I'm doing my best. And yeah, you know what? Like the whole like, oh, I'm clutching my pearls. Oh, Anna, she raises her voice. Damn right I do. What do you want me to do? You want me to play paddy cakes with everything that's going on right now? You want me to have like a civil calm conversation as these like disgusting, deceptive people lie in your faces about what's actually going on? No.

No, I'm actually passionate about this. I'm not in it for money. I'm not in it because, you know, it's a glamorous job. If anything, it has led to a lot of heartache and a lot of pain in my personal life. But I care about this stuff. I care about the country. I live here, my family lives here. I think about my nieces and my nephews and their future. And the fact that we are destroying our own country on behalf of a foreign country is infuriating to say the least and that we're being lied into it too. All right, Rio Han. says, does anyone, all right, we got to get back to the show. I'll read more of your comments in a bit. What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the show. I'm going to read some super chats, and we're

probably going to run out of time. But I got to read these super chats. Thank you to all of the generous viewers of the show. I'll be reading some member comments in the bonus episode for our members, t.yt.com slash join for that. We will be covering the Democratic primary race for a Senate seat in Texas in our bonus episode. We're also going to talk a little bit about Gavin Newsom's 180 on Israel. Is it sincere or is this for, you know, electoral purposes? I can't wait to talk about that. So if you're a member, you're definitely in for a treat.

For now though, I do want to just interact with the audience a little bit. We've got about eight minutes. So send in your comments. I'll read as many of them as I can. Let's start with five, five P did five, who says Anna and Farsi. We call you Kosnane. Nane is mint in Armenian, by the way. I don't know what Kosnane means,

but I know what Sharmuta means. I don't know if I'm allowed to say that. Anyway, let's go to Constantine Kravirus, who says $22 and $22.2 super chat to celebrate. My daughter making a number two on the potty. That's freaking awesome. I know how difficult potty training is, so I'm excited for you.

Congratulations. Uncle N8 T3 says, if these words, war mongering Christians read the Talmud. They would distance themselves from Israel entirely. I say that as a Christian. Republicans really are clueless. Love you guys at TYT. Thank you.

I appreciate it. Look, I know that there are some things in the Talmud that sound really, really bad. I am not a theologian. And so I don't want to take parts of the Talmud out and say, like, see, this is what they believe. I know that it's like a rabbinical thing. All I know is, please don't have. hate on Jewish people. Jewish people in general are not responsible for what the government of Israel is doing.

I know there are a lot of people out there who try to smear me as an anti-Semite. I am not an anti-Semite. I have no hatred in my heart for Jewish people or the Jewish religion. I do have hatred in my heart, though, for a foreign country that gets the men and women in our armed services killed, that drives us into deeper and deeper debt, that couldn't care less about our country or our well-being. But that's a government and that country's military, by the way. In terms of Jewish Americans, I see them as my fellow Americans, period.

So hating them simply for their religious beliefs or their ethnicity, I think is wrong. And I'm not saying that you are saying that. But I just want to make sure that we're careful, guys, because the worst thing that could happen is that we direct our ire at the wrong people. We have to be focused and we need to be precise. in who we are drawing our ire toward. All right, let's go to Dav Mill, who says, the non-news propagandists are not to inform there to keep people on the edge of their seats,

worried about fill in the blank, are going to do as antidepressant and nerve anxiety drugs are advertised. You're not wrong. I mean, there's, I mean, the shock therapy, I think, is very real. disaster capitalism is very real. So, you know, no, no, is it Nomi Klein's? No, that's not her name. Why am I forgetting her first name? Jeez. Okay, but you should read the shock doctrine. It's a really, really good book that kind of bolsters what you're talking about here. The reason the CIA and not Mossad, you know, is looking to arm the Kurds is because this involves money and we are the money bag. Also, CIA Mossad, I always say same same, honestly.

They do work hand in glove. Bach says arming folks in the Middle East always works out so well for us. So this is in response to the story about how the U.S. is considering arming the Kurds to spark civil war in Iran. Meanwhile, I can't get full auto M4 or cheap NVGs just handing it out, out though. I don't know what that is box, but I feel for you. I really do. Dav Mill also says in the 60s when gold was $16.50 an ounce, a bar would buy a nice middle class home. Now around 5,000 ounce a bar would still buy a nice middle class home. Monetary policy in D.C. is the reason. Yeah, inflation is really bad. That's the other thing. If we have time, there's a story of

about the economy that I really want to cover because there are economic ramifications that will come about as a result of this ongoing war, escalating war in the Middle East. Already there has been some negative impacts to oil and gas infrastructure when it comes to these Gulf countries. So I wanted to talk about that a little bit and just kind of make sure you guys know a brace for impact to know what could come as this continues to escalate and expand. But I'll read a few more of your comments and then we'll wrap up the main show and head over to our bonus episode for our members. Let's go to Gargoyle Dragon who says he's not the candidate or president of peace. Oh, I already read that.

He's a big MacDeath with the side of racism and a large drink of inflation. And we will be talking about that inflation at some point on the show either today during the bonus episode or tomorrow during the main show. All right, let's go to the rest of our members. We've got Anita Carter who says thank you, TYT for reporting facts. Thank you. And thank you for keeping us honest when we get anything wrong. And you guys want to correct us. We've got Rusty Joe's who says, Heggsett sounded psychotic today.

To be fair, he sounds psychotic often. I remember one of the MAGA journalists, if you want to call her that, asked a question that didn't like completely fall in line with the administration. And the way he addressed her, to me clarified. and reinforced the claims about him being abusive to his ex. It was wild to see it. Let's go to Dana Brecht, who says, Axis of Epstein. Yeah, yeah.

This was a big distraction from the Epstein files, wasn't it? I wonder if that was on purpose. I found Thone says, Anna is my favorite. Thank you, you're my favorite. Thank you for watching and thank you for the support. I'll read one more from America. 1776. Our military should exist first and foremost to protect our country and our people not to be drawn into endless conflicts that don't have a clear connection to our safety. I totally agree. Members only bonus episode is next. TYT.com slash join. I'll see you guys there. Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything. Like packing a spare stick. I like to be prepared. That's why I remember 988 Canada's suicide crisis helpline. It's good to know just in case. Anyone can call or text for free confidential support from a train responder anytime.

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